Questions tagged [download]
Downloading is the process of receiving digital data from another computer, either over a local-area-network or a wide-area-network (i.e. the internet).
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How to download Hiren .iso file? [closed]
I'm looking at Hiren Boot Page at http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd but can't find where to download the iso.
Do you have any idea?
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Home wireless network by bluetooth. Looking for a windows 2000 bluetooth driver [duplicate]
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home wireless network by bluetooth
Does anyone knows where I can download a windows 2000 bluetooth driver?
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rss downloader script
I have a Synology NAS that is powered by linux at my house. I'm looking to set up a cron script to check a group of rss feeds and auto download new video podcasts to a shared folder. I can do most of ...
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Windows cannot find the host name "download.microsoft.com" using DNS
When trying to download a file found on the Microsoft downloads center that starts with, for example, http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/7/(some_GUID)/(some_file_name.ext) i get a timeout with ...
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Download of some files keeps getting stuck at certain point
I'm having this problem where everytime I download a particular file, the download would progress to a certain point and pauses there, for example, when I try to download the TCPOptimizer software ...
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Downloadable templates and styles for Word 2010? [closed]
Where can I find downloadable templates and styles for Word 2010?
I'm not a designer, but would like to find pre-packaged sets of fonts, colors and indenting that is more appealing that what is built ...
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How can I continue an incomplete download?
I recently downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 via HTTP from the Ubuntu website, the download reached 663.0 MB of 685.6 MB before it was accidentally canceled. Is it possible to continue the download using the ...
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Where can I find Samsung SP1203N 120gb internal hard drive firmware update?
I am trying to update the firmware for this drive. I ran a program which messed up the SMART readings on the drive and want to get a newer version of the firmware to fix the issue. My current firmware ...
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What to do with infinite downloads
What do I do when I see something like this? It really sucks if you want to download something and this one shows up.
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Download Manager for Mac OS X? [closed]
IS there a download manager for Mac OS X that allows me to interrupt and resume large downloads? (I'm trying to download the Apple Developer Tools update, but a 3+ GB file size seldom plays nicely ...
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Seek permission prior to download
I have users who use both IE and Firefox. Some clients are in a domain; others are in a workgroup. I have some questions:
a) Is there a way I can set up IE, Firefox, and/or Chrome such that it will ...
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How do I check what processes are actively using the network? [duplicate]
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Monitor all and any internet traffic from my home PC - what should I use?
Recently, I discovered that something is downloading on my computer even if I doesn't do anything ...
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How to make Chrome save an AVI file instead of play it?
Sounds trivial? Just go to Options\Under the hood and click on clear auto-opening settings, right?
Well... it's grayed out!
So I go to somewhere on the web and right-click on the link to an AVI file (...
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How to get a Windows XP Home Edition download?
I am fixing a computer for a friend, which has a Windows XP Home Edition installation that will not boot. I think there's corrupted system files; I was able to boot from a Windows XP Pro disc, tried ...
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How to configure Firefox to reserve hdd space for the full file size when a download begins?
Normally Firefox captures disk space progressively as a file is downloaded. So it can come to a situation when you download 99% of a file to know it can't fit on your HDD or download 50% of 2 files ...
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Simple downloader
I would like to send an iso image for a friend. Normal IE download doesn't work, she has an instable and slow internet connection.
A dedicated downloader application would be perfect. She starts an ....
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How can I identify my netbook's chipset?
I've purchased a no-name netbook from malasia; and for the last year used Ubuntu on it just fine. I had a little trouble finding the Wireless driver, turns out the RT-3090 one worked.
But now I've ...
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Is there a software that can crawl a webpage, discover all files with a given extension and download them all? [closed]
Is there a software that can crawl a webpage, discover all files with a given extension, and download them all?
It can be a standalone software or a Firefox add-in.
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Need a download manager for Ubuntu over network
I am trying to download a 22gb file over a slow vpn connection. The file is not hosted so what I did was just "connect to remote server" via Ubuntu, navigate to the directory where the file is and ...
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how to throttle downloads in Chrome
I've got various downloads I'd like to get without impacting the rest of my office's connection speeds (we're on a pretty slow connection).
I was wondering if there was some way to easily add/remove ...
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Some websites prompt to download PHP script after some time, but only in Firefox
This happens only in Firefox - NOT in IE or in Safari (all 3 tested only on a Windows system).
Always, viewing a page shows most of the content, and then the browser prompts to download some sidebar ...
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How can I download a cryptographically signed version the Java JDK from Oracle?
When going to Oracle's download site to download JDK for EE the download is over HTTP (not HTTPS) and the executable isn't signed. As far as I can tell, there are also no SHA1 hashes published so I ...
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Resume big files without FTP access, howto?
What is the best way to download this update?
Last time it was stopped in the middle and resuming seems not possible with Internet Explorer. Any better way?
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How do I make HTTrack download at 15MBps?
I want to download some static websites. I have begun the process, but it seems that the maximum speed I can set to the GUI is a shade shorter than 1Mbps.
My down-link is steady until 54 Mbps, so I ...
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Re-Downloading Linux (Kernel) Source
yesterday i downloaded source of my virtual linux kernel and tried to compile it.
It compiled indeed but could not boot from the new kernel.
Then today i decided to re-downloading after removing ...
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How to download Apple Keynotes?
I've tried the usual suspects like WellGet, NetXfer, wget with some referrer forgery and so on, but I never succeeded.
So the problem is, I want to download the keynotes from Apple, like the current ...
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belvedere alternative [closed]
Is there an alternative for the application belvedere? Something that I could use to move files from my download folder, into their respective folders.
For example, if I download a .exe file, the ...
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Make Chrome always open PDFs itself
I'm looking for a way to make Google Chrome always open PDFs with its internal viewer when I click a link, as opposed to downloading it to the default location. It works with most URLs, but some ...
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Can my server "download" files?
I want my web server to fetch a file from another HTTP server. So that I do not need to download the file myself and upload it to my server.
Is this possible?
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Can I use an external download manager with Chrome?
Can I use for example axel as the default downloader for Google Chrome?
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Chrome continue download when OS X sleeps
Will Google Chrome continue downloading even when my Mac goes to sleep?
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By sleep, I mean the timeouts I set in Energy Saver Preferences from the battery icon. For example, I set Computer Sleep ...
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Download arbitrary file with Google Chrome
Google Chrome starts downloading a file automatically after you click on a download link. However if this file is pdf or wmv then instead of downloading a file it opens it with browser's pdf reader (...
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How to prevent an account from downloading in Windows 7
Is there a way to prevent accounts from downloading files in Windows 7?
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How can I make Firefox download different file types to different locations?
98% of what I download is music, so I set the download location to my music folder. However, the other 2% has no place there, so every time I download .doc files or PDF files I have to remove them. Is ...
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Using WGET to Get All of the .mov Files from Diggnation
I'm trying to download every single episode of Diggnation using WGET to grab the small QuickTime movies. It would be too tiring to go through every single page to download them. Here's what I'm ...
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Where does Opera store the image or the video files it downloads from internet?
where does Opera store the image or the video files it downloads from internet?
Can I get the exact location on Windows 2003 Machine?
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Is there an addon that helps me download all images of an being-viewed web page?
I search for this addon on the Google Chrome home page bu
Ut can not find one. If you know how to do this, please help.
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How to get a warning from Firefox before you close when downloads are in progress?
I sometimes close Firefox while I have downloads in progress that do not support resuming. Then when I open Firefox again I have to go to the original download location and start from scratch. It ...
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Need my PDF to be searchable when clicked
I have a link to a PDF on a site that the client wants to make searchable. It can be searched using Adobe reader's default search thingee. But, it has just come to my attention that when viewing it on ...
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Google Chrome mistakenly adds extra .gz at the end of downloads
Every time I try to download a .gz file, Chrome appends an extra .gz at the end of the filename
Is this a known bug? Any workarounds?
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Windows 7 Live Essential
I wish to Install Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 BETA on Windows Live Essential 2011 beta but this new update Wave 4, I am not getting site to download. Anybody may help getting me straight site for ...
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How can I download MacTeX when every time I download it the download fails between 100 and 300 megs out of 1.5 gigs?
I've somehow managed to download this onto a computer over a year ago but now when I try to do it, every mirror I try (all over the world; I'm in US but tried US mirror first obviously) eventually ...
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Recursively mirroring a hosted blog
I am not asking how to download a standard webpage, or website tree, as I know how to do that.
The problem I am having is that wget/downloadthemall/HTTrack/FDM/IDM, etc., do not seem to work with the ...
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I Want a Single "Downloads" Folder on Windows 7
With both of my Windows 7 machines, there is a Downloads folder in the user's directory, and also a Downloads folder in the user's My Documents folder. It seems that half of my applications put ...
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Can you recommend a Firefox extension for files download list generation? [closed]
I'd like to be able to generate a plain text list of all files of specific types (zips, pdfs, etc.) linked from current displayed page. Can you recommend extension for this other than FlashGot?
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Is there a setting in Google Chrome that will force it to download media files instead of playing them?
Wondering if anyone knows of any settings for Google Chrome that will tell the browser to download media files rather than playing them in the browser window. For example an mp3.
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How do I get rid of the Adobe Download Manager
Somehow I have got the Adobe Download Manager installed on my PC, and it opens up periodically. I don't know what triggers it.
How can I get rid of it?
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Have firefox ask me where to save downloads
I am using Firefox 3.6.8 on a Mac with OS 10.6.4. How do I make it so that every time I download a file, firefox will ask me what location I want to save the file in?
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Restoring .DMP files in Oracle 8.1
Where can I get the Oracle 8.1 setup?
I'm also looking for the steps involved in restoring .DMP files in Oracle 8.1. Any ideas?